The supermarket chain, known as Asda, is truly under fire. This time, the cause is genuinely alarming for the customers who frequent these stores.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found a chemical called campylobacter in the chickens sold at the superstore. The statistics of the research and tests conducted were as follows:
Chicken samples that tested positive for the bug: 80.4%
Number of chickens with the highest level of the bug: 29.7%
Chickens that failed the FSA standards tests: 78.1%
The British-based, American-owned chain of supermarkets is a store that customers shop at regularly and purchase their fair share of groceries from. Therefore, the amount of people that could possibly be affected from this bug is alarming.
What is more alarming is that Tesco, which is a store that tested for the lowest levels of the bug, came in at 66.5%.
The tests were conducted on about 4,000 chickens, according to reports; these tests were carried out for approximately a year. Campylobacter is one of the top causes of food poisoning. Not just that, but a few tests also showed that the bug was even present in the packaging. Food today is indeed contaminated inside out.
Image: Via Flickr/Dominic Alves
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